Talking about the videos of him being manhandled by UP Police, Gandhi said, “The entire country is being assaulted right now, and so, if I got pushed around a bit, it is not a big deal… the most unimaginable assault was on the victim’s family.”
In a press conference on Tuesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Modi government over the recently passed Farm Bills and the Uttar Pradesh government over the Hathras incident.
Rahul Gandhi, explaining why he went to meet the grieving family of the victim, said: “I wanted that family to know that they are not alone. I told the family that I did not come to meet them only for their sake, but for the lakhs of women who face abuse. (In the Hathras case), the entire administrative machinery of Uttar Pradesh targeted the victim’s family, but the prime minister did not say a word.”
Talking about the videos of him being manhandled by UP Police, Gandhi said, “The entire country is being assaulted right now, and so, if I got pushed around a bit, it is not a big deal… the most unimaginable assault was on the victim’s family.”
The MP from Wayanad, targeting the farm bills passed by the parliament, said, “The introduction of the farm laws by the [Narendra] Modi government is a way to destroy the existing structure of food security and it is going to affect the state of Punjab the most. It is an attack on our farmers and we will fight it.”
“If the laws were meant to benefit farmers, why did Modiji not debate them in Parliament? Why were the Bills passed in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic? Why did the prime minister not hold a press conference on them, or speak to Punjab farmers about them?” he further asked.
Talking about the ongoing border crisis with China, Gandhi said: “Narendra Modi said nobody has taken Indian land. He told this to Opposition leaders. China has taken 1,200 square kilometres of our land, how could they do so? China did so because it knows that the person sitting at the top only protects his image. For saving his image, he will hand over 1,200 sq kms of land to us.”
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